Hungry for home games

The recent expansion to Williams Stadium includes a new video board, better Wi-Fi speed, and higher seating capacity. Concessions were also updated, bringing a faster, tastier experience for fans.

The East side of the stadium previously offered a general concession stand with eight registers. Since the opening of the new stadium, the East wing now offers Auntie Anne’s, Dunkin Donuts Express, Nathan’s Hotdog cart, two general concession stands and House of Flames for a grand total of 24 points of sales.

According to Vice President of Auxiliary Services Louis Cambeletta, the motivation behind the changes in concessions made by Sodexo and Liberty effort was to bring an easier, enhanced, big-time stadium feel to consumers.

“We wanted to accomplish a couple of things,” Cambeletta said. “The first thing was to have a better concessions experience for students, fans, and whoever would sit on the East side. The second thing we wanted to do was to be able to create an environment where we could get fans in and out fast. The third thing was we wanted to have more variety.”

The Certificate of Occupancy needed before for the concessions preparation in the stadium could begin was provided Wednesday, August 29 when it was expected to be ready Monday, August 27. Even with lack of preparation time, the renovations to concessions proved to be successful. Early indications for total sales show concessions was up 25-30 percent from a typical first Saturday game.